How can we recycle materials to create functional and innovative pieces of furniture? The creative students of the <a title="Danish Creative Students Inspire People to Recycle and Think Twice at Copenhagen Design Week 2011" href="http://www.designskolenkolding.dk/index.php?id=11" target="_blank">Kolding School of Design</a> and <a title="Danish Creative Students Inspire People to Recycle and Think Twice at Copenhagen Design Week 2011" href="http://en.aarch.dk/" target="_blank">Aarhus School of Architecture</a> are taking on the challenge, certainly proving that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. On show at the <a title="Danish Creative Students Inspire People to Recycle and Think Twice at Copenhagen Design Week 2011" href="http://www.copenhagendesignweek.com/category/design-zone/events/think-twice" target="_blank">Think Twice</a> exhibition at this year's <a title="Danish Creative Students Inspire People to Recycle and Think Twice at Copenhagen Design Week 2011" href="http://www.copenhagendesignweek.com/" target="_blank">Copenhagen Design Week</a>, check out the designs that these young creatives are proposing to remedy the issue of growing, excess waste.

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Copenhagen Design Week 2011's Think Twice students exhibition

Malene Lund Rasmussen created this funky seat from knitted plastic bags, that restore and add some color to an old, classic chair.

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Copenhagen Design Week 2011's Think Twice students exhibition

The Ace of Spades lamp by Anna Karnov Pedersen is made from a carefully arranged set of recycled playing cards.

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Copenhagen Design Week 2011's Think Twice students exhibition

This fantastic set of containers designed by Lise PP Staldkarl is made from repurposed bottles and scrap veneer.

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Copenhagen Design Week 2011's Think Twice students exhibition

By ironing shopping bags into a colorful sheet, Christina Amelie Jensen created 85 Plastic Bags - a lounge chair for enjoying eco-friendly days and sun bathing at the nearest beach.

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Copenhagen Design Week 2011's Think Twice students exhibition

2nd Chandelier by Christian Baastrup is a sleek and modern hanging luminaire made from metal components recycled from an old office chair.

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Copenhagen Design Week 2011's Think Twice students exhibition

By using sink cutouts from the production of kitchen countertops, Jeppe S Vestergaard created this handy recycled wooden stool complete with handle.

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Copenhagen Design Week 2011's Think Twice students exhibition

Laerke Zesach Krabbe created Thrown Out, a tasty and surprisingly strong chair made by upholstered sliced bread baguettes that were left to dry and reinforced with water glass.

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Copenhagen Design Week 2011's Think Twice students exhibition

Screw’up by students Matilde Nyeland Jorgensen Og and Marie Munk Hartwig is a user-friendly storage system for keeping small objects that usues screwed to the wall glass jars.

By simply thinking twice, Danish students were able to demonstrate how taking a DIY, fresh and lateral-thinking approach to design, can solve complicated problems with simple solutions.

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Copenhagen Design Week 2011's Think Twice students exhibition

How can we recycle materials to create functional and innovative pieces of furniture? The creative students of the Kolding School of Design and Aarhus School of Architecture are taking on the challenge, certainly proving that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. On show at the Think Twice exhibition at this year's Copenhagen Design Week, check out the designs that these young creatives are proposing to remedy the issue of growing, excess waste.